Susan Graham has taught family and consumer science (formerly "home
ec") for 25 years. She is a National Board-certified teacher, a former regional Virginia teacher of the year, and a Fellow of the Teacher Leaders Network. She invites readers to pull a chair up to her virtual table as she offers her voice-of-experience perspective on teaching today, with a special focus on teacher leadership and continuous professional growth.

Inspired by a trip to the National Geographic Museum, Susan Graham wishes that school were more like a buried treasure hunt, where teachers could inspire students to wonder about what they don't already know.

"Some say the world will end in fire and others say in ice." The weather folks around here are predicting it will be ice; but then again folks get awfully fired up when ice and snow cause school to be canceled.